All Health Service Journal articles in 17 May 2007

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  • News

    Myth-buster: bedbugs bite

    2007-05-15T00:00:00Z

    Stephen Black challenges NHS untruths in the first in a new series

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Gail Richards on work-life balance

    2007-05-15T00:00:00Z

    The recent national staff survey offers a chance to see what NHS staff really think of where they work. One set of questions is used to 'assess the extent to which they believe that their trust and immediate manager are committed to helping them find a good balance between their ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Improving data on private sector healthcare

    2007-05-14T00:00:00Z

    As the proportion of NHS patients treated by the independent sector continues to rise, the Information Centre for health and social care.is focusing on new ways of improving the quality of.information submitted by private sector health providers, particularly about NHS-funded care.

  • News

    Working with Oakleigh Consulting

    2007-05-14T00:00:00Z

    The Information Centre for health and social care's commercial management team is working with Oakleigh Consulting.to make information on the NHS more accessible.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Encouraging clinicians to use data

    2007-05-14T00:00:00Z

    The Information Centre for health and social care.has launched a new initiative to work more closely with clinicians to improve the quality of data used to measure patient outcomes.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Information Centre unveils revamped website

    2007-05-14T00:00:00Z

    The Information Centre for health and social care's revamped website includes improved access to information from the hospital episode statistics.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Stepping up to patient care

    2007-05-14T00:00:00Z

    The Stepping Up programme is designed to understand how improving access to treatments can improve people's well-being and prevent them from developing more serious mental health problems, writes Mark Needham.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Legal briefing: releasing value from land

    2007-05-14T00:00:00Z

    Buildings need to be used efficiently and filled to capacity to raise money.needed for investment back into the health sector, argues Marisa Broadhurst.